Smashed
by:
Lisa Luedeke (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781442427792 (1442427795)
Publish date: August 21st 2012
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Book Club,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Young Adult Contemporary
Smashed is a gritty and hard hitting book. I connected with Katie and it was hard to watch her spiral down and lose so much and be in so much pain. I could predict what would happen, just not how she would get there, but it was still a hard and emotional journey. Smashed is for mature teens beca...
3.5 - 4 starsSmashed was a hard book to put down. While I found it engrossing, I am torn about it. I wanted to like Katie more than I did, but there are many times throughout the narrative that she is unlikable, and hard to relate to. She is struggling with her father's rejection of her family, an...
This book was ok. No more, no less. I found it partially boring, partially interesting, so the quotation screams two stars.I know, underage drinking sucks. The abuse sucks. So?And I didn't like the ending.
With Katie doing what she was doing: the lying and the drinking and the lying, I was hard pressed to like her. Truly, I was trying not to judge, but couldn’t help it… but this was all before what’s done to her happened! Prior to that, I felt sorry for the girl but nothing more than that. After, if I...